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SDAFF 2025 : Haunted Mountains The Yellow Taboo
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025 Legend speaks of haunted mountains in Taiwan, where lost hikers are led astray by a ghostly apparition in a yellow slicker, to their deaths. Time loop horror is a relatively new sub-genre of horror, with movies like Donnie Darko, Happy Death Day, and the recent Until Dawn giving us entries filled with comedy, tragedy, gore and, of course, looped deaths in some of the most horror-ific ways possible. Haunted Mountains dives us deep into Taiwanese...
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SDAFF Spring Showcase 2025 : Soldier of Love
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The story of rising Kazakh music star Beybut and his navigating the trappings, and failings, of fame. So apparently the now-familiar story trope of a musician who climbs to fame and ignores or casts aside everyone who helped him...
SDAFF 2024 Dead Talents Society
Reviewed by Alicia Glass So our Rookie (Gingle Wang) hasn’t been dead terribly long as other ghosts would describe it, and isn’t terribly familiar with the big business that the haunting and urban legend celebrity ghosts perpetuate. When the offerings at a ghosts...
SDAFF 2024 New Wave
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The film is half a recollection of displaced Vietnamese kids fled to America after the Vietnam war creating a community of their own around the super-popular New Wave music movement, and half a biographical journey of filmmaker Elizabeth Ai’s...